Patti Smith Quotes
I knew William Burroughs really well, and I was always star struck being around him. I adored him.
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The health care industry can play a great role in this by being aware of the fact that these children form perhaps the most neglected group of people in the country, largely because it is hard to find them.
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There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
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The McCain-Feingold limit on how much you give a candidate didn't really work because people found ways to get around it.
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Editing and post-production is so important with comedy.
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Muzzle a dog and he will bark out of the other end.
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I would love to get great performances from actors as a director, because that's what I'm always looking for, a director that's going to help me go places I've never been before.
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The true Tarot is symbolism; it speaks no other language and offers no other signs.
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If you're paralyzing your face in your 20s and 30s, you're not exercising the muscles that give it strength. My feeling is, laugh, cry, move your face.
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I always start a play by calling the characters A, B, and C.
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Six years, I didn't act. Then I wrote myself a role - I won prizes all over the world.
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I come from a dysfunctional family, so my views of parents and parenting used to be highly mixed.
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You've got to perform in a role hundreds of times. In keeping it fresh one can become a large, madly humming, demented refrigerator.
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The evangelical Christian faith I'd grown up with sustained me. It demanded that I refuse the drugs and alcohol on offer in our southwestern Ohio town, that I treat my friends and family kindly, and that I work hard in school. Most of all, when times were toughest, it gave me reason to hope.
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Most geniuses are weird.
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The principal factors which influenced my life are 1) nonviolent tactics; 2) constitutional means; 3) democratic procedures; 4) respect for human personality; 5) a belief that all people are one.
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I like acting for now. But after seeing Apollo 13, what I really want to do is to be an astronaut. I'm dying to go to a space camp next summer!
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Where liberty dies, evil grows.
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John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.
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Growing up in a particular neighborhood, growing up in a working-class family, not having much money, all of those things fire you and can give you an edge, can give you an anger.
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Playing Marcia was a double-edged sword; it always will be whenever you play a character like that. You will be known as that character forever.
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The aura of soccer is very different from other sports.
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I have tried to keep on with my striving because this is the only hope I have of ever achieving anything worthwhile and lasting.
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I used to get on a stove wood pile at 5-6 years old and I would have a piece of stove wood and kindling bark as a pick, and I was a star.
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I knew William Burroughs really well, and I was always star struck being around him. I adored him.
